Flare as bright as 10 trillion Suns caused by supermassive black hole consuming an enormous star
Astronomers have broken two records at once by spotting the largest and the most distant flare ever seen,…
Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays
Kaufman, A. M. & Ni, K.-K. Quantum science with optical tweezer arrays of ultracold atoms and molecules. Nat.…
Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons
Greene, J. E. et al. UNCOVER spectroscopy confirms the surprising ubiquity of active galactic nuclei in red sources…
A Study Appears to Stunningly Contradict Newton and Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update…
Scientists Produced New Dimensions of Light, 37 of Them, to Be Exact
In a groundbreaking quantum optics experiment, researchers have produced a particle of light that simultaneously exists across 37…
Pew! Pew! YouTuber Builds Sound Laser That Works as ‘Invisible Speaker’
Here’s a shower thought: if light and sound both travel as waves, can you make something that works…
String Theory Can Now Describe a Universe That Has Dark Energy
In selecting a geometry for the compact extra dimensions, for instance, they chose a space that resembles a…
Spiral Galaxy Caught Spraying Huge Jets of Super-Hot Gas Like a Sprinkler : ScienceAlert
A nearby galaxy has been caught draining itself of star-forming fuel, with vast streams of superheated material twisting…
Pushing China’s EAST Tokamak Past The Greenwald Density Limit
Getting a significant energy return from tokamak-based nuclear fusion reactors depends for a large part on plasma density,…
An Object With a Black Hole Core Discovered 11 Billion Light-Years Away
A completely dark, invisible object weighing 1 million times the mass of the Sun has been detected through…
Astronomers Discover the First Galaxy-Wide Wobbling Black Hole Jet
It’s a well-known fact that Supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) play a vital role in the evolution of galaxies.…
Supermassive black holes don’t seem to make sense. But the mystery may be solved, and the answer is catastrophic
The question of how black holes grow should be an easy one to answer: they absorb material from…